Atomic Spin

Project & Team Management • Apr 25, 2021

Making Remote Workshops Suck Less

Our teams found ways to host productive project kickoffs even while everyone is physically separate. In this post I share tips for what has worked for us.

Personal Optimization • Apr 24, 2021

Is Your Desk a Barometer for Your Headspace?

Are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed by your to-do list? Your messy desk might be contributing to your lack of progress.

Exploratory Testing • Apr 23, 2021

4 Steps to Get the Most Out of Your Software Beta Trial

There are many ways to approach a beta trial. By thinking first about what outcomes you want, you can work backward to think about how.

Development Practices • Apr 22, 2021

Prepare Your Software for Growth: Create Boundaries

You can be prepared for system and team growth with preparation and a smart application of boundaries in your software project.

Web Apps • Apr 21, 2021

How to Make Writing Performance Tests Easy With Cypress

Performance tests can be used to track app performance over time. Here’s a quick overview of how to track page load for a web app with Cypress tests.

React Native • Apr 20, 2021

Building a “Scroll To Top” Button Using React Native

Infinite scrolling is great until you need to scroll back to the top. Follow along as I add a "scroll to top" button to a React Native project.

Development Practices • Apr 19, 2021

Making Changes in a World of YAGNI

In many agile development projects, code will need to change frequently, and clean code that is easy to understand is easier to change.

Platforms & Languages • Apr 18, 2021

Getting Started With a New Programming Language

Starting a new project sometimes entails getting familiar with an unfamiliar programming language. Here are a few of the steps I take to get up to speed.

Growing as Makers • Apr 17, 2021

What College Didn’t Tell Me About A Career In Software Development

After a year in my position at Atomic, I understand how different a career in software can be from what I thought it was in college.

Developer Tools • Apr 16, 2021

How to Explain Your Job to Other People: Software as Digital Construction

Software development is not online wizardry. It's more like digital construction using many of the same tools you do every day.

Platforms & Languages • Apr 15, 2021

Foreach Loops and Timeouts in 3 Languages

Documenting the behavior of using setTimeout (or similar) in a foreach loop in three different languages: Squirrel, TypeScript, and C#.

TypeScript • Apr 14, 2021

Using Typescript Types Generated from OpenAPI Schemas

Are you thinking of generating your TypeScript types from an OpenAPI schema? Here are some issues to consider before doing so.